The experience you get growing up has its good and its bad. You are not easily disappointed but you are not easily excited either. You know that disaster does not come from an event, you now have the composure and a clear eye to see it in its dimensions, you know that both the destruction and the salvation of the world do not depend on an election result.
In the recent past we can remember results that froze us and others that filled us with optimism (Obama and Trump), which in the process turned out to be something much less than our feelings. When the court decision for Golden Dawn came out, I thought that great defeats from fascism await us in the future, we didn’t get out of the way with a court decision, but on the other hand it was a day that no one could steal from us, let’s enjoy it like little children , let’s not be so miserable and “mature”.
Le Pen may be right and her victory that will come in the next election has just been delayed. Maybe, but in the next few days, not today. If we put forward complex political thinking, it is not to triumph, but we will not cry either. I mean that psychology plays a very big role, many times more important than the looming reality, and some others it has already changed, it sent to the bucket all those realists who predicted the darkest scenario.
Life does not pass without passions and without childish excitements. We cannot always be with skepticism, we are not only made for rationality but also for madness. History is not a linear equation, even if in hindsight it is interpreted as such and we are filled with prophets after Christ. History has irregular dots in a three-dimensional field that are joined by both logic and the unthinkable, by mad invention.
Politics is also emotion without equating emotion with cheap populism. You don’t just think, you feel too, it’s not just mind, it’s body too, it’s not at all separate from pleasures.
Defeats await us, defeats await us, both will pass and the world will slowly change for the better or for the worse. There are few things we can control, but at least let’s do our best. And let’s feel as much as we can.
We will close with a sexist – according to the appropriateness of the time – remark. The girls who took to the streets of Paris last Sunday night to celebrate the defeat of the Far Right were much prettier than the girls who celebrated their apparent victory one Sunday earlier. They were cleaner faces, more feminine smiles, more girls.
You will tell us what kind of arbitrary remark this is and what it has to do with politics. This is exactly what we are saying, that it is a completely political observation.
